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The Association Between Grip Strength and Depression Among Adults Aged 60 Years and Older: A Large-Scaled Population-Based Study From the Longitudinal Aging Study in India

open access: yesFrontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2022
BackgroundThe association between grip strength and depression in elderly individuals in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has rarely been studied.
Jinbao Wang   +9 more
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The role of confounding factors in a radon epidemiological study

open access: yesRadiatsionnaya Gygiena = Radiation Hygiene, 2017
Objective: A simulation of a large-scale epidemiological case-control study to identify the relationship between exposure to radon and lung cancer in the presence of factors that distort the results of the assessment of exposure to radon in homes.
A. D. Onishchenko, M. V. Zhukovsky
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Gut and airway microbiota dysbiosis and their role in COVID-19 and long-COVID

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2023
The gut microbiota plays a crucial role in human health and disease. Gut dysbiosis is known to be associated with increased susceptibility to respiratory diseases and modifications in the immune response and homeostasis of the lungs (the so-called gut ...
Giuseppe Ancona   +14 more
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Relationship between mental health, sleep status and screen time among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2023
Objective On 20 July 2021, after the outbreak of COVID-19 at Nanjing Lukou International Airport, several universities started closed management and online teaching.
Wei Wang   +7 more
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A Community-based study on the prevalence and predisposing factors of Parkinson’s disease in Barangay Mangilag Sur, Quezon Province, Philippines

open access: yesClinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 2022
Introduction: Prevalence of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) in the Philippines has been estimated to be 
Raymond L. Rosales   +7 more
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Animal Viruses, Bacteria, and Cancer: A Brief Commentary

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2014
Animal viruses and bacteria are ubiquitous in the environment. However, little is known about their mode of transmission and etiologic role in human cancers, especially among high-risk groups (e.g., farmers, veterinarians, poultry plant workers, pet ...
Jimmy Thomas Efird   +3 more
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Exploration of Potential Roles of m6A Regulators in Colorectal Cancer Prognosis

open access: yesFrontiers in Oncology, 2020
Colorectal cancer (CRC) represents one of the most common malignancies with high morbidity worldwide. RNA methylation (m6A) has been considered to tremendously contribute to cancer initiation and progression since its first discovery.
Liechen Ji   +3 more
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The Evidence for an Obesity Paradox in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus [PDF]

open access: yesDiabetes & Metabolism Journal, 2018
Although overweight/obesity is a major risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus, there is increasing evidence that overweight or obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus experience lower mortality compared with patients of normal ...
Seung Jin Han, Edward J. Boyko
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Back and neck pain and poor sleep quality in adolescents are associated even after controlling for confounding factors: An epidemiological study.

open access: yesSleep science (Sao Paulo, Brazil), 2020
Back pain and poor sleep quality are public health issues. Relating to adolescents particularly, the way in which this relationship can occur is still unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate whether low back and neck pain are associated with sleep quality among adolescents.In total, 1011 randomly selected adolescents participated in this ...
Scarabottolo, Catarina Covolo   +8 more
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To Adjust or Not to Adjust? Sensitivity Analysis of M-Bias and Butterfly-Bias

open access: yesJournal of Causal Inference, 2015
“M-Bias,” as it is called in the epidemiologic literature, is the bias introduced by conditioning on a pretreatment covariate due to a particular “M-Structure” between two latent factors, an observed treatment, an outcome, and a “collider.” This ...
Ding Peng, Miratrix Luke W.
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